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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Alain de Botton

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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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What kills us isn’t one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can’t turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.
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Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest – in all its ardour and paradoxes – than our travels.
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A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
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Maturity: knowing where you’re crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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